Joanne Begiato
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joanne Begiato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Begiato |
| SIGNATURE | BEGIATO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oxford Brookes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6192-0463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: Senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain
This article considers the conjunction of senses, emotions and objects in the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 to deepen our understanding of popular militarism in late Victorian Britain. Exhibitory culture was reaching its peak in this period in parallel with the rise of urban spectatorship, making both objects and people the subject of the gaze. Deploying the concepts of emotional objects and 'prosthetic feeling', we show that the uniquely mod…
Inheriting the family: Emotions, identities and things
This introduction to the special issue ‘Inheriting the family: emotions, identities and things’ briefly explores how attention to different forms of inheritance as emotional practices offers new ways to understand ‘intergenerational emotion’. It explains the importance of new methodologies to interrogating this emotion and introduces a range of possibilities that are taken further by the contributors in the issue. These include analysis of emotio…
Radical exposure: Religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal
This article considers a hitherto neglected sexual scandal involving the Congregational minister William Bengo’ Collyer and two young men at a public swimming baths in Camberwell (then in Surrey) in the spring of 1823. It explores the relationships between Congregationalism, and Evangelical Dissent more generally, and the cultures of contemporary masculinity and political radicalism. In so doing, it reveals how radical political figures, notably …
Favouritism, Patronage and the ‘Family System’ in England, c.1700–1850
This article examines the interrelationships between familial, social, political and professional ideas about favouritism in England. It shows that there was a cross-fertilisation of discourses over the century-and-a-half between c.1700 and 1850, when favouritism was increasingly problematised in the domestic, social and professional spheres. Although several issues were identified as emanating from its practice, it was the very role of the famil…
A 'master-mistress: Revisiting the History of Eighteenth-Century Wives
There is a dilemma at the heart of the history of eighteenth-century married women. Their ‘story’ is so closely bound up with considerations of gendered authority that, until recently, this has been the primary, sometimes the only, frame for analysis. It is true that patriarchy conscripts and uses women to enable some men to reach their full potential and privileges. In so doing, it simultaneously makes married women integral to the functioning o…
Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, emotion, and material culture
Moving Objects
The final chapter explores ideas of movement and the act of being moved in relation to materiality and history, in order to reflect on potential future directions of emotions and material culture as a field. From imaginative and supernatural movement, physical and temporal movement, to psychological and physiological movement, it considers the roles of a range of objects—both real and imagined—in constructing feelings and identities for individua…
Beyond the Rule of Thumb: The Materiality of Marital Violence in England c. 1700–1857
This article examines how marital violence was articulated in and around particular places, spaces, and objects, to reveal the tensions embedded in the physical structure of the household and its control. It also demonstrates that space and objects shaped marital violence both as an idea and an act and did ‘emotional work’ in the sense that they operated upon people’s emotions and behaviour. Finally, it argues that an imagined material culture of…
Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: Religion, Enlightenment and the Sexual Revolution
The Long Eighteenth Century was the Age of Revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, sexual toleration began and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both print and visual culture media. William Gibson and Joanne Begiato here consider the ways in which the Church of England dealt with sex and sexuality in this period. Despite the backdrop of …
Between Poise and Power: Embodied Manliness in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century British Culture
This paper explores representations of the manly body and the ways in which its relationship with masculine identity and embodied selfhood changed over time and class. It spans a period in which different types of masculinities were dominant, from the later eighteenth-century man of feeling to the later nineteenth-century muscular Christian, and proposes that an embodied approach offers a more nuanced consideration of the ways in which ideals of …
Tears and the manly sailor in England, c . 1760–1860
This article explores the apparent paradoxes in representations of the British Jack Tar in order to reconsider the ways in which his figure came to embody idealised attributes of manliness in the period 1760–1860. Naval historians have revealed that images of sailors were closely related to ideas about class, sex, and nation, identifying distinctive types of Jack Tar such as the drunken carouser, the fatalistic, fearless but simple Tar, and the d…
Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, emotion, and material culture
Tears and the manly sailor in England, c . 1760–1860
This article explores the apparent paradoxes in representations of the British Jack Tar in order to reconsider the ways in which his figure came to embody idealised attributes of manliness in the period 1760–1860. Naval historians have revealed that images of sailors were closely related to ideas about class, sex, and nation, identifying distinctive types of Jack Tar such as the drunken carouser, the fatalistic, fearless but simple Tar, and the d…
A 'master-mistress: Revisiting the History of Eighteenth-Century Wives
There is a dilemma at the heart of the history of eighteenth-century married women. Their ‘story’ is so closely bound up with considerations of gendered authority that, until recently, this has been the primary, sometimes the only, frame for analysis. It is true that patriarchy conscripts and uses women to enable some men to reach their full potential and privileges. In so doing, it simultaneously makes married women integral to the functioning o…
Between Poise and Power: Embodied Manliness in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century British Culture
This paper explores representations of the manly body and the ways in which its relationship with masculine identity and embodied selfhood changed over time and class. It spans a period in which different types of masculinities were dominant, from the later eighteenth-century man of feeling to the later nineteenth-century muscular Christian, and proposes that an embodied approach offers a more nuanced consideration of the ways in which ideals of …
Tears and the manly sailor in England, c . 1760–1860
This article explores the apparent paradoxes in representations of the British Jack Tar in order to reconsider the ways in which his figure came to embody idealised attributes of manliness in the period 1760–1860. Naval historians have revealed that images of sailors were closely related to ideas about class, sex, and nation, identifying distinctive types of Jack Tar such as the drunken carouser, the fatalistic, fearless but simple Tar, and the d…
Between Poise and Power: Embodied Manliness in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century British Culture
This paper explores representations of the manly body and the ways in which its relationship with masculine identity and embodied selfhood changed over time and class. It spans a period in which different types of masculinities were dominant, from the later eighteenth-century man of feeling to the later nineteenth-century muscular Christian, and proposes that an embodied approach offers a more nuanced consideration of the ways in which ideals of …
Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century: Religion, Enlightenment and the Sexual Revolution
The Long Eighteenth Century was the Age of Revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, sexual toleration began and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both print and visual culture media. William Gibson and Joanne Begiato here consider the ways in which the Church of England dealt with sex and sexuality in this period. Despite the backdrop of …
Moving Objects
The final chapter explores ideas of movement and the act of being moved in relation to materiality and history, in order to reflect on potential future directions of emotions and material culture as a field. From imaginative and supernatural movement, physical and temporal movement, to psychological and physiological movement, it considers the roles of a range of objects—both real and imagined—in constructing feelings and identities for individua…
Beyond the Rule of Thumb: The Materiality of Marital Violence in England c. 1700–1857
This article examines how marital violence was articulated in and around particular places, spaces, and objects, to reveal the tensions embedded in the physical structure of the household and its control. It also demonstrates that space and objects shaped marital violence both as an idea and an act and did ‘emotional work’ in the sense that they operated upon people’s emotions and behaviour. Finally, it argues that an imagined material culture of…
Manliness in Britain, 1760–1900: Bodies, emotion, and material culture
A 'master-mistress: Revisiting the History of Eighteenth-Century Wives
There is a dilemma at the heart of the history of eighteenth-century married women. Their ‘story’ is so closely bound up with considerations of gendered authority that, until recently, this has been the primary, sometimes the only, frame for analysis. It is true that patriarchy conscripts and uses women to enable some men to reach their full potential and privileges. In so doing, it simultaneously makes married women integral to the functioning o…
Inheriting the family: Emotions, identities and things
This introduction to the special issue ‘Inheriting the family: emotions, identities and things’ briefly explores how attention to different forms of inheritance as emotional practices offers new ways to understand ‘intergenerational emotion’. It explains the importance of new methodologies to interrogating this emotion and introduces a range of possibilities that are taken further by the contributors in the issue. These include analysis of emotio…
Radical exposure: Religion, masculinity, and politics in the William Bengo’ Collyer scandal
This article considers a hitherto neglected sexual scandal involving the Congregational minister William Bengo’ Collyer and two young men at a public swimming baths in Camberwell (then in Surrey) in the spring of 1823. It explores the relationships between Congregationalism, and Evangelical Dissent more generally, and the cultures of contemporary masculinity and political radicalism. In so doing, it reveals how radical political figures, notably …
Favouritism, Patronage and the ‘Family System’ in England, c.1700–1850
This article examines the interrelationships between familial, social, political and professional ideas about favouritism in England. It shows that there was a cross-fertilisation of discourses over the century-and-a-half between c.1700 and 1850, when favouritism was increasingly problematised in the domestic, social and professional spheres. Although several issues were identified as emanating from its practice, it was the very role of the famil…
Exhibiting Tommy Atkins: Senses, spectacle and military modernity in late Victorian Britain
This article considers the conjunction of senses, emotions and objects in the Royal Military Exhibition of 1890 to deepen our understanding of popular militarism in late Victorian Britain. Exhibitory culture was reaching its peak in this period in parallel with the rise of urban spectatorship, making both objects and people the subject of the gaze. Deploying the concepts of emotional objects and 'prosthetic feeling', we show that the uniquely mod…
Sociology (8 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (5 works) · History (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works)